How To Solve Today's Connections, Solution #743

Quick Links It’s a new day and that means a new puzzle wall to solve in the New York Times’sConnectionsgame. If you’re looking to save your streak and only want to nail down that last pesky category, don’t worry - we have all the hints you could need. You’ll find everything you need below, from vague hints as to what you should be looking for to the outright answers. Whether you’re looking for a nudge in the right direction or a sneaky way to preserve your blemish-free record, you’ve come to the right place....

July 6, 2025 · 2 min · 215 words · Catherine Green

How To Tell If A Bill Has A Gang Mark In Cash Cleaner Simulator

Quick Links There’s plenty you need to watch out for inCash Cleaner Simulatorif you want to successfully amass the one million dollars you need to buy your freedom. Things like ensuring the client gets the right type of cash in the type of container they’ve requested, and several other factors. Every client is different, but most of them won’t be happy if you send marked bills along with their cleaned cash....

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Jennifer Pineda

If You Only Play One Indie Game This Year, Make It One Of These

Every year, there’s that one indie game that quietly lands and completely takes over your brain. You start it on a whim, and suddenly it’s all you can think about. Maybe it is the mechanics or the art style. Either way, it spends way more time in your brain than you ever anticipated. If you’re only going to make time for one indie game this year, it had better be one worth obsessing over....

July 6, 2025 · 5 min · 920 words · David Davis

Kingdom Hearts 4 Screenshots Have Been Shared Following Missing Link Cancelation

Summary Kingdom Heartsfans have been going through it recently. After years of nothing but silence fromSquare Enix, we finally got some news earlier today in the form ofa sudden cancelation announcement from the team behind the mobile spinoff Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link, as they claimed they wouldn’t be able to support the title for the long term. Kingdom Hearts fans went into a state of mourning, though many were completely numb after so many years without even a crumb of news from Square Enix regarding Kingdom Hearts 4....

July 6, 2025 · 2 min · 376 words · Joshua Brown

Mafia: The Old Country Isn't Going To Be Shorter Because It's Cheaper, According To Studio Head

On August 8, the Mafia series will finally be making a comeback after all this time.Mafia: The Old Countryis the first game in the classic series in nearly a decade, and it will attempt to capture the magic of the first two titles. Something that’s already working for it is the$49.99 price, which is on the lower side, while other publishers are only increasing prices. However, with this comparatively low price, there have been questions about the upcoming game’s quality and overall length....

July 6, 2025 · 2 min · 346 words · Eric Gonzalez

Magic: The Gathering Is Reprinting Shocklands For Edge Of Eternities, But There's Only Half Of Them

Magic: The Gathering’sbigFinal Fantasy crossover has now come and gone, which means we’re now looking forward to what’s on the horizon. Thankfully, for all the Universes Beyond haters out there,the next set is called Edge of Eternitiesand is entirely within universe, themed all around space and launching on August 1 later this year. To get us all nice and excited about the set, Wizards of the Coast briefly showed off some of the cards that will be included during a Preview Panel during this year’s MagicCon, and it has been revealed that a very popular set of lands are being reprinted for Edge of Eternities, making them legal in Standard once again....

July 6, 2025 · 2 min · 379 words · Amy Thomas

Nintendo Switch 2's NSO Library Has A Secret GameCube Start-Up Screen

Even thoughMario Kart Worldwas the only major first-party launch title for theNintendo Switch 2, there’s a lot you can do with the new console. For example, it’s the only platform on which you can access the newGameCubewing ofNintendo’s NSO library, and even if you have been using it already, you may not have realised it has a secret start-up screen. The GameCube’s start-up screen is considered by many, including me, to be the greatest console start-up screen of all time....

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · 486 words · Daniel Moss

Pokemon TCG Pocket players are taking the whole plagiarism and placeholder situation better than you might think

Pokemon TCG Pocket’s Wisdom of Sea and Sky set dropped last weekand was immediately tainted as eagle-eyed fans noticedsome of its cards seemingly featured traced fan art. That artwork was promptly removed from the game and replaced with cards that don’t have anyPokemonon them at all, and rather than get angry and upset about it, Pocket players have been making the most of the situation. The accusations started to emerge before the set was released as cards from the expansion began doing the rounds on line....

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · 443 words · Donna Clark

Resident Evil Requiem Was Originally An Open-World Multiplayer Game

As part of the first “Creator’s Message” forResident Evil Requiem,Capcomhas confirmed the long-standing rumours thatResident Evil 9started out as a multiplayer-focused game. Even though Resident Evil Requiem (or just Resi 9 if you prefer)was only just revealed earlier this month as part of Summer Game Fest, it feels like we’ve known about it for quite some time. That’s because therehave been a boatload of rumours and leaks about the ninth mainline Resident Evil game, fromLeon Kennedy being the main protagonistto it taking place on anisland inspired by Singapore....

July 6, 2025 · 2 min · 375 words · Alan Bailey

Sine's Romance Quests In Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon

Quick Links There’s more to saving the world from the Wyrd than just finding pieces of King Arthur’s soul inTainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon. While optional, you can choose to find love in the most unlikely places. These characters will support you and offer a break from the doom and gloom of world-ending chaos going on around the Menhirs. One candidate for a good time is Sine, though you’ll need to do some work to get her to warm up to you....

July 6, 2025 · 6 min · 1079 words · Jessica Durham

Square Enix Reveals Cloud And Zack-Led Final Fantasy TCG Starter Sets

Summary With its launch only a little more than a month away,hype for Final Fantasy’s Magic: The Gathering expansionis really starting to pick up steam. However, someFinal Fantasyfans are only just discovering that they could have been collecting cards featuring characters from their favorite series for years. Final Fantasy has its own long-running TCG, andSquare Enix just revealedwhat will almost certainly be two very popular new starter sets. Even though the Final Fantasy TCG spans all of the series' history - evenFinal Fantasy 16characters are a part of the game following 2024’s Hidden Legends set - these new starter sets are led by two sides of the sameFinal Fantasy 7coin....

July 6, 2025 · 2 min · 409 words · Sarah Allen

Switch 2 Pre-Orders Are Being Canceled Out Of Nowhere

Summary It’s a gamer’s worst nightmare come to life. Just days before theNintendo Switch 2is set to launch,those who were lucky enough to secure a preorderare now finding that their order has been canceled. Just like that, June 5 — the launch date forNintendo’s successor to the originalNintendo Switch— will come and go without a console, leading to frustration, confusion and overall panic in the gaming community as people frantically check their order status to ensure that they too have not had their pre-orders closed....

July 6, 2025 · 2 min · 317 words · Courtney Griffin

The Best Horror Games That We Are Too Scared To Play

Thehorror genrein video games is massive. Every year, it seems that a new horror game emerges, enticing gamers around the world. For the brave, these games are a piece of cake. For weenies though, they can be quite frightening. No matter how good a horror game may be, you may just be too scared to play. We totally understand that; as fellow weenies, there are some games we skip over due to the potential fright....

July 6, 2025 · 5 min · 881 words · Yesenia King